Consonant clusters and phonological syllables in French

Dell, François

doi:10.1016/0024-3841(95)90099-3

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“…This agrees with Dell's (1995) analysis of the French syllable (see also Bouchard 1980). Plénat (1987) also proposes that rimes consist maximally of two positions, but he assumes that the two rime slots can be occupied by sonorants only.…”

Section: The French Syllablesupporting

confidence: 87%

Markedness, Faithfulness, Vowel Quality and Syllable Structure in French

Féry

2003

French Language Studies

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The quality of vowels in French depends to a large extent on the kind of syllables they are in. Tense vowels are often in open syllables and lax vowels in closed ones. This generalisation, which has been called loi de position in the literature, is often overridden by special vowel-consonant co-occurrence restrictions obscuring this law. The article shows first that the admission of semisyllables in the phonology of French explains a large number of counterexamples. Many final closing consonants on the phonetic representation can be understood as onsets of following rime-less syllables, opening in this way the last full syllable. Arguments coming from phonotactic regularities support this analysis. The second insight of the article is that Optimality Theory is a perfect framework to account for the intricate data bearing on the relationship between vowels and syllable structure. The loi de position is an effect dubbed Emergence of the Unmarked, instantiated only in case no higher-ranking constraint renders it inactive.

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Section: The French Syllablesupporting

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Markedness, Faithfulness, Vowel Quality and Syllable Structure in French

Féry

2003

French Language Studies

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“…The only clusters unanimously considered as nonseparable consisted of a subset of the OBstruent-LIquid clusters. This subset, referred to as the OBLI class by Dell (1995), includes the combinations of a stop or the fricative /f/ or /v/ with the liquid // or /l/, excluding /dl and tl/ clusters, illegal at word onset. In the misaligned condition, the OBLI clusters consisted of /d/, /f/, /k/, /p/, /t/, and /v/ for the 21 targets beginning with // and /bl/, /fl/, /kl/, and /gl/ for those beginning with /l/.…”

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The Role of the Syllable in Lexical Segmentation in French: Word-Spotting Data

Dumay

Frauenfelder

2002

Brain and Language

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Three word-spotting experiments assessed the role of syllable onsets and offsets in lexical segmentation. Participants detected CVC words embedded initially or finally in bisyllabic nonwords with aligned (CVC.CVC) or misaligned (CV.CCVC) syllabic structure. A misalignment between word and syllable onsets (Experiment 1) produced a greater perceptual cost than a misalignment between word and syllable offsets (Experiments 2 and 3). These results suggest that listeners rely on syllable onsets to locate the beginning of words. The implications for theories of lexical access in continuous speech are discussed.

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“…Ç-a and ≈a-rnab-aat. French does have phonotactic constraints (see Dell 1995), but this difference does not explain why ZT makes so few metatheses on French clusters. Some French clusters would be reversible without changing the syllable structure (e.g., kt, tl, where the structure is C.C in both orders), whereas some other clusters would be reversible with a concomitant change in syllable structure (e.g., rk, rt, where the structure is C.C in one order and .CC in the other).…”

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The Mental Representation of Semitic Words

2000

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This article is concerned with external evidence bearing on the nature of the units stored in the mental lexicons of speakers of Semitic languages. On the basis of aphasic metathesis errors we collected in a single case study, we suggest that roots can be accessed as independent morphological units. We review documented language games and slips of the tongue that lead to the same conclusion. We also discuss evidence for the morphemic status of templates from aphasic errors, language games, and slips of the tongue. We conclude that the available external evidence is best accounted for within a morpheme-based theory of morphology that forms words by combining roots and templates.

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Consonant clusters and phonological syllables in French

Cited by 99 publications

References 10 publications

Markedness, Faithfulness, Vowel Quality and Syllable Structure in French

Markedness, Faithfulness, Vowel Quality and Syllable Structure in French

The Role of the Syllable in Lexical Segmentation in French: Word-Spotting Data

The Mental Representation of Semitic Words

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